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Defending Erika Kirk · The M&M Experience

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  Speaker 1: That's a live look at Tampa on the Big wgul.
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  Speaker 1: the Tampa Bay area where we find our talk show buddy,
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  Speaker 1: Mike Gallagher. My buddy, Mike has done national radio for decades.
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  Speaker 1: I've done local radio for decades. When our worlds have intersected.
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  Speaker 1: When I got to come back here to my native Texas,
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  Speaker 1: we spend time together, Mike mark eminem experience and figured,
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  Speaker 1: you know, if I'm filling in here on this, this
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  Speaker 1: is this national morning show, why should I deny the
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  Speaker 1: public what they have loved for so many years. So
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  Speaker 1: the show that follows this one on many of these platforms,
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  Speaker 1: Our buddy Mike Gallagher joins us. Happy tax Day, Mike,
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  Speaker 1: We're having a little topicality on that. How are you
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  Speaker 1: this morning?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Happy tax Day. I saw a little statistic that
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  Speaker 2: I thought was interesting. According to the official numbers from
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  Speaker 2: the IRS, the top one percent of income tax filers
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  Speaker 2: in twenty twenty two contributed forty point four percent of
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  Speaker 2: the revenue. The top ten percent of filers, yeah, paid
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  Speaker 2: seventy two percent.
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  Speaker 3: Of all revenue.
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  Speaker 2: The top quarter of the top quarter of income tax
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  Speaker 2: filers the top earners eighty seven point two percent.
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  Speaker 3: Now, but this is Mike, this, this can't be true.
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  Speaker 3: This can I'm sorry, we're not paying our fair ships. Mike.
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  Speaker 1: All the smart kids are telling me. You know when
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  Speaker 1: when Bernie Sanders we've got to have the millionaires, they
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  Speaker 1: got to pay that fair share. And I keep asking,
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  Speaker 1: what in the world is the fair share?
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  Speaker 3: How much will be enough? Eighty percent, ninety percent? Why
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  Speaker 3: the heck? Maybe not? Maybe not.
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  Speaker 2: I got pushed out in New York at fifty one percent.
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  Speaker 2: That was the day that I realized I'm out when
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  Speaker 2: I was paying fifty one percent city, state, federal tax
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  Speaker 2: to New York. A city right now that has a
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  Speaker 2: mayor is putting together plans for a city run grocery store.
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  Speaker 2: One grocery store. It's going to cost thirty million dollars.
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  Speaker 2: Oh no, not even a thirty million dollars, not even
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  Speaker 2: gonna be ready until twenty twenty nine. D How can
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  Speaker 2: you spend thirty million on a grocery store. I'm what
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  Speaker 2: are they gonna have like fly cars out in the
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  Speaker 2: parking lot? I mean, what though thirty million dollars, it
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  Speaker 2: would cost about three million dollars to put up a
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  Speaker 2: Albertsons or a public thirty million dollars. That's zoor on
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  Speaker 2: Mom Donnie's plan. And over in California, Tom Steyer, who
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  Speaker 2: is now regarded as being the front runner for the
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  Speaker 2: Democrats now that Swallwell resigned, he I look, I can't
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  Speaker 2: stop laughing today because it's so crazy. Gubernaturo candidate Tom
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  Speaker 2: Steyer releases an immigration platform that would include abolishing ICE,
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  Speaker 2: putting ICE agents in jail and treating them like the mob.
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  Speaker 2: Bring those kidnapped and detained by Ice back home, taxpayer
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  Speaker 2: funded legal representation for illegals. I mean, this guy makes
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  Speaker 2: Gavin Newsom look like you know, Jeane Kirkpatrick.
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  Speaker 1: And this is crazy because Tom Steyer was kind of
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  Speaker 1: the you know, I'm not the bug eyed radical. I'm
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  Speaker 1: the business guy with business sense. What California needs is
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  Speaker 1: business sense. Boy, the shroud has come off of that,
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  Speaker 1: and with's Swallowell and gone and what end. Listen. I
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  Speaker 1: can't read minds, but it seems to me that he
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  Speaker 1: believes now that there is a radical leftist lane open
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  Speaker 1: for somebody, and Katie Porter she'll try to fill it,
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  Speaker 1: but she's just so unpopular that maybe he now sees
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  Speaker 1: this is the way.
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  Speaker 3: All you got to do is make the top two.
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  Speaker 1: Is it going to be him and Steve Hilton making
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  Speaker 1: the top two when this vote happens in California?
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  Speaker 2: Well, the crazy lane, though, is getting really crowded. For example,
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  Speaker 2: last night, Erica Kirk had to cancel her appearance at
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  Speaker 2: a Turning Point event at the University of Georgia. Now
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  Speaker 2: there's a I want to talk about this with you
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  Speaker 2: because I wanted to kind of get your take your
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  Speaker 2: temperature on the events of last night. Number one, it
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  Speaker 2: was apparently poorly attended. It was an arena with about
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  Speaker 2: an eight thousand seat capacity. Reasonable estimates put it in
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  Speaker 2: about fifteen hundred people. Now that's either bad for JD Vance,
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  Speaker 2: who did appear and was scheduled to appear, or it's
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  Speaker 2: bad for Turning Point, or it's bad for both. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know which it is. I have a feeling. I'm
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  Speaker 2: telling you something. I got this feeling about Marco Rubio
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  Speaker 2: in twenty twenty eight instead of Jdvans. I think there's
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  Speaker 2: more sizzle with Marco right now, and maybe maybe the
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  Speaker 2: tide is turning against JD. I could be wrong. I
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  Speaker 2: don't want to believe that.
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  Speaker 3: I like him.
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  Speaker 2: I think he's a great VP. He's done great work.
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  Speaker 2: But if you can't draw more than fifteen hundred people
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  Speaker 2: and you're the vice president of the United States and
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  Speaker 2: the likely presidential nominee in twenty twenty eight, mark, what
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  Speaker 2: do you make of a poor turnout in you know,
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  Speaker 2: Red Georgia.
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  Speaker 1: I could solve the problem with one decision. It's called
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  Speaker 1: hold it in a ballroom with fifteen hundred people, then
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  Speaker 1: it's a sellout. I think they may be overestimated what
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  Speaker 1: the appeal would be. This gives the opportunity for people
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  Speaker 1: to the what they do. Any liberal reporter will always
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  Speaker 1: head to the back of the room, take a picture
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  Speaker 1: of the entire place, and then that is where they
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  Speaker 1: will find. Undoubtedly, you know, when the visuals provide it
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  Speaker 1: empty seats, and there were plenty of them. I think
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  Speaker 1: it's a bit of over analysis. I think generally, if
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  Speaker 1: you're taking the temperature right now in April of twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty six, rubio star is rising, and it's not at
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  Speaker 1: the expense of JD. He isn't doing anything wrong. Rubio
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  Speaker 1: stands astride a dangerous world and listen, it's been another
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  Speaker 1: great week for Rubio because he's well, everybody's trying to
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  Speaker 1: figure out what to do with Iran. He's getting together
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  Speaker 1: with Israel and Lebanon, who are finding common ground in
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  Speaker 1: their Middle Eastern interests.
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  Speaker 2: Had nothing but good week now, I mean, he has
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  Speaker 2: good week after good week after good week, and it
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  Speaker 2: seems to be a little contagious.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know, Mark, I don't know that it's a
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  Speaker 3: one author, you know.
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  Speaker 2: On the other hand, Ben Shapiro showed up at the
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  Speaker 2: University of Pennsylvania. Now it was a smaller venue. They
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  Speaker 2: turned away a thousand kids. He was packed standing ovation.
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  Speaker 2: And the message that people are trying to make, at
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  Speaker 2: least online, is that, look, the anti Israel crazy lane
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  Speaker 2: doesn't really work the lane for Ben Ben Shapiro, who's
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  Speaker 2: pro Israel exactly, you know. And that's the reflection there
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  Speaker 2: of reality. But one more note about the Turning Point event,
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  Speaker 2: So Erica had to cancel because of security concerns and
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  Speaker 2: which which sickens me. And then and then immediately and
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  Speaker 2: she put out a statement saying, look, you know, I
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  Speaker 2: was so looking forward to the event, but after all
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  Speaker 2: our family has been through, I take my security team's recommendations. Seriously,
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  Speaker 2: thank you to all our amazing Georgia chapter for your support.
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  Speaker 3: God bless you all well.
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  Speaker 2: Candice Owens immediately launches an attack on Erica.
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  Speaker 3: Stop.
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  Speaker 2: This is exhausting. You pulled out because of bad ticket sales.
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  Speaker 2: People don't believe you, and they don't line up for
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  Speaker 2: you because you struggle to tell the truth about even
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  Speaker 2: the most basic facts. Where's the video of Charlie appointing
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  Speaker 2: you as CEO weeks before his death? My gosh, Mark,
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  Speaker 2: the cruelty of going after If you can make heads
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  Speaker 2: or tails out of this, please, I am all ears.
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  Speaker 2: You tell me why there is such a cottage industry
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  Speaker 2: in attacking Erica Kirk. Why are they mad? Mark at Erica,
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  Speaker 2: the widow who watched her husband or you had to
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  Speaker 2: live with her husband being assassinated just seven months ago?
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  Speaker 2: This wasn't seven years ago, hasn't even been a year,
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  Speaker 2: and they're going after her mercilessly.
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  Speaker 3: Mark. Can you explain it to me?
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  Speaker 1: I can't, And I can explain the self absorption and
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  Speaker 1: narcissism and opportunism of people, and you and I've talked
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  Speaker 1: about this. Looking for clicks, no matter how low you
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  Speaker 1: have to stoop to get them, whether it's the latest
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  Speaker 1: thing that Candace has done, or the latest thing Nick
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  Speaker 1: Quents is done, or the latest thing that Alex.
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  Speaker 3: Jones has done.
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  Speaker 1: There is good the father of modern psychology, William James.
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  Speaker 1: There's great wisdom and knowing whom to ignore. I just
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  Speaker 1: have stopped paying attention to these people. And I know
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  Speaker 1: you have to be aware, and I hear your lecture.
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  Speaker 1: You can't completely stop paying.
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  Speaker 3: She's got one of the top podcasts in the world.
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  Speaker 2: Mark She's got one of the time you can sit
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  Speaker 2: there and say, I'm going to put my fingers in
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  Speaker 2: my ears.
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  Speaker 3: Something is It's working.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, look, Candace has her her podcast has accelerated.
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  Speaker 3: Like a meteor.
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  Speaker 2: There are people who are consuming this and walking around.
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  Speaker 3: I've got friends of mine.
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  Speaker 2: I told you a few weeks ago, I about wrecked
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  Speaker 2: the car when a reasonable co worker said, come on,
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  Speaker 2: you don't really think that Tyler guy killed Charlie, do you?
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  Speaker 1: Yep?
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  Speaker 3: You really had to.
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  Speaker 2: Do with the Masad in Israel, right, And Trump was
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  Speaker 2: in on it and Erica was in on it. This
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  Speaker 2: is like a normal, reasonable coworker who listens to Candace Owens.
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  Speaker 1: I mean from that from from from that to we
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  Speaker 1: didn't land on the Moon to any and not that
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  Speaker 1: those are, you know, cousins, but that they're they're They're
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  Speaker 1: going to be weird, offbeat, bent people, and I'm just
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  Speaker 1: not going to conduct my life around them.
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  Speaker 3: I'm just going to keep.
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  Speaker 1: Trying to plow forward with truth, plow forward with things
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  Speaker 1: that I mean. But again, but you still you remain
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  Speaker 1: completely right. I can't go la la la and pretend
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  Speaker 1: these people don't exist, because they do. And to any
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  Speaker 1: degree that their messaging is problematic to winning in the
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  Speaker 1: mid terms, you got to pay some attention.
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  Speaker 2: You got to pay attention because they are a factor.
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  Speaker 2: I suspect that that maybe that's why there wasn't a
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  Speaker 2: good crowd last night, because of all these attacks on Erica.
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  Speaker 2: And look back to the when you talk about the
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  Speaker 2: lunar Man, you know, landing took place in a desert
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  Speaker 2: in Arizona and all that crap, Well, that was always fringe.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think that it's fair. I don't think it's
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  Speaker 2: accurate to call Megan Kelly or Candace Owens fringe.
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  Speaker 1: They're pretty much mark, They're pretty not not in that regard.
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  Speaker 1: They're not mainstream I think when you take a look
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  Speaker 1: at the at the israel hesitant, anti Semitic, uh clickbait community,
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  Speaker 1: even if it's five or ten percent of every conservative
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  Speaker 1: in America, that's still a lot of people.
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  Speaker 3: It's a lot of people.
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  Speaker 2: Incidentally, before we get out of here, have you ever
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  Speaker 2: heard of Clavicular? Do you know this kid Clovicular? It's
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  Speaker 2: just fun to say, I do not, I know. I
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  Speaker 2: love the name. It's some twenty one year old kid
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  Speaker 2: who is a huge social media influencer. Do you know
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  Speaker 2: about look smaxing?
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  Speaker 1: It's come boomer's talking gen z. What could get exactly exactly?
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  Speaker 1: What tell me in sixty seconds? Why are you saying
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  Speaker 1: these things to me? Because I don't understand any of it.
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  Speaker 1: Looks smacking apparently as you take a hammer to your
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  Speaker 1: head and your jaw to try to get a better
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  Speaker 1: looking jaw, and all these crazy you put all kinds
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  Speaker 1: of drugs into your system. And this kid, who's the
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  Speaker 1: king of that whole look smaxing movement, Clovicular evidently odd
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  Speaker 1: last night on a live stream I think in Vegas
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  Speaker 1: they had to take into the hospital. He's been hospitalized
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  Speaker 1: on't know what his condition is, but look you talk
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  Speaker 1: about gen zers going into going down a dangerous path,
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  Speaker 1: Try to go down that rabbit hole. Look up, looks
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  Speaker 1: waxing and clovicular. There is his real name is His
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  Speaker 1: real name is Brayden Peters. He was taken to an
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  Speaker 1: emergency room after his live stream was abruptly cut off
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  Speaker 1: in TikTok America, in the TikTok universe, and you'll see
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  Speaker 1: these things like, hey, everybody, take the cinnamon challenge where
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  Speaker 1: you take a big heap and teaspoon of cinnamon dust.
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  Speaker 3: And of course you gag and die.
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  Speaker 1: Oh that's even funnier, that's even more awesome.
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  Speaker 3: I think you wrap it up.
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  Speaker 1: There's a higher percentage of stupid, easily malleable, easily shapable,
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  Speaker 1: easily misleadable people than the Internet was supposed to make
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  Speaker 1: us smarter, and in some ways it has, but boy,
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  Speaker 1: has it ramped up stupidity.
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  Speaker 3: Lord, Please send the meteor now. Please send the giant
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  Speaker 3: meteor of death. Please send it now. I'm ready, Lord,
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  Speaker 3: I'm coming home. Come on.
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  Speaker 1: We need you, We need you to keep keep your grip, man,
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  Speaker 1: keep your grip.